Code Generation papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Code Generation went from 210 papers in 2023 to 860 in 2026, roughly 4.1x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Code Generation work: 630 papers from 2023 to 2026, 29% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 93 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Natural Language, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, is up 5.4x versus 4.1x here.

Representative papers

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• NeurIPS 2026A Theoretical Analysis of Test-Driven Code Generation
• ICML 2026$A_2$DEPT: Large Language Model–Driven Automated Algorithm Design via Evolutionary Program Trees
• ICLR 2026A Bayesian Nonparametric Framework for Private, Fair, and Balanced Tabular Data Synthesis
• CVPR 2026ACPV-Net All-Class Polygonal Vectorization for Seamless Vector Map Generation from
• NeurIPS 2025$\texttt{STRCMP}$: Integrating Graph Structural Priors with Language Models for Combinatorial Optimization
• ICML 2025AlphaVerus: Bootstrapping Formally Verified Code Generation through Self-Improving Translation and Treefinement
• ICLR 2025Automated Proof Generation for Rust Code via Self-Evolution
• CVPR 2025ArtFormer: Controllable Generation of Diverse 3D Articulated Objects
• NeurIPS 2024AMBROSIA: A Benchmark for Parsing Ambiguous Questions into Database Queries
• ICML 2024ACM-MILP: Adaptive Constraint Modification via Grouping and Selection for Hardness-Preserving MILP Instance Generation
• ICLR 2024CODE REPRESENTATION LEARNING AT SCALE
• CVPR 2024Desigen: A Pipeline for Controllable Design Template Generation
• NeurIPS 2023ANPL: Towards Natural Programming with Interactive Decomposition
• ICML 2023Can Large Language Models Reason about Program Invariants?
• ICLR 2023Binding Language Models in Symbolic Languages
• CVPR 2023Attribute-Preserving Face Dataset Anonymization via Latent Code Optimization
• NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Time-Sensitive Language Generation: Sparse Hallucination Beats Mode Collapse
• ICML 2026Beyond Problem Solving: UOJ-Bench for Evaluating Code Generation, Hacking, and Repair in Competitive Programming
• ICLR 2026AssetFormer: Modular 3D Assets Generation with Autoregressive Transformer
• CVPR 2026Animator-Centric Skeleton Generation on Objects with Fine-Grained Details

All Code Generation papers

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301. ICLR 2025SFS: Smarter Code Space Search improves LLM Inference Scaling
302. ICLR 2025Shh, don't say that! Domain Certification in LLMs
303. ICLR 2025Show-o: One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation
304. ICLR 2025SINGAPO: Single Image Controlled Generation of Articulated Parts in Objects
305. ICLR 2025Sitcom-Crafter: A Plot-Driven Human Motion Generation System in 3D Scenes
306. ICLR 2025Speculative RAG: Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation through Drafting
307. ICLR 2025Spider 2.0: Evaluating Language Models on Real-World Enterprise Text-to-SQL Workflows
308. ICLR 2025STAR: Synthesis of Tailored Architectures
309. ICLR 2025STBLLM: Breaking the 1-Bit Barrier with Structured Binary LLMs
310. ICLR 2025Steering Large Language Models between Code Execution and Textual Reasoning
311. ICLR 2025Sufficient Context: A New Lens on Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems
312. ICLR 2025SysBench: Can LLMs Follow System Message?
313. ICLR 2025Taming Overconfidence in LLMs: Reward Calibration in RLHF
314. ICLR 2025TC-MoE: Augmenting Mixture of Experts with Ternary Expert Choice
315. ICLR 2025Teaching LLMs How to Learn with Contextual Fine-Tuning
316. ICLR 2025Temporal Heterogeneous Graph Generation with Privacy, Utility, and Efficiency
317. ICLR 2025TestGenEval: A Real World Unit Test Generation and Test Completion Benchmark
318. ICLR 2025The Hyperfitting Phenomenon: Sharpening and Stabilizing LLMs for Open-Ended Text Generation
319. ICLR 2025The KoLMogorov Test: Compression by Code Generation
320. ICLR 2025The Ramanujan Library - Automated Discovery on the Hypergraph of Integer Relations
321. ICLR 2025The Rise and Down of Babel Tower: Investigating the Evolution Process of Multilingual Code Large Language Model
322. ICLR 2025ThinK: Thinner Key Cache by Query-Driven Pruning
323. ICLR 2025To Code or Not To Code? Exploring Impact of Code in Pre-training
324. ICLR 2025Towards Realistic Data Generation for Real-World Super-Resolution
325. ICLR 2025Training Language Models on Synthetic Edit Sequences Improves Code Synthesis
326. ICLR 2025TULIP: Token-length Upgraded CLIP
327. ICLR 2025Turning Up the Heat: Min-p Sampling for Creative and Coherent LLM Outputs
328. ICLR 2025Two Sparse Matrices are Better than One: Sparsifying Neural Networks with Double Sparse Factorization
329. ICLR 2025Uncertainty-Aware Decoding with Minimum Bayes Risk
330. ICLR 2025Unveiling the Magic of Code Reasoning through Hypothesis Decomposition and Amendment
331. ICLR 2025Unveiling the Secret Recipe: A Guide For Supervised Fine-Tuning Small LLMs
332. ICLR 2025What Makes Large Language Models Reason in (Multi-Turn) Code Generation?
333. ICLR 2025What's New in My Data? Novelty Exploration via Contrastive Generation
334. ICLR 2025When Attention Sink Emerges in Language Models: An Empirical View
335. ICLR 2025WorkflowLLM: Enhancing Workflow Orchestration Capability of Large Language Models
336. ICLR 2025You Only Sample Once: Taming One-Step Text-to-Image Synthesis by Self-Cooperative Diffusion GANs
337. ICML 2025AAAR-1.0: Assessing AI’s Potential to Assist Research
338. ICML 2025Agent-as-a-Judge: Evaluate Agents with Agents
339. ICML 2025AlphaVerus: Bootstrapping Formally Verified Code Generation through Self-Improving Translation and Treefinement
340. ICML 2025An Online Learning Approach to Prompt-based Selection of Generative Models and LLMs
341. ICML 2025AuPair: Golden Example Pairs for Code Repair
342. ICML 2025AUTOCIRCUIT-RL: Reinforcement Learning-Driven LLM for Automated Circuit Topology Generation
343. ICML 2025Automated Benchmark Generation for Repository-Level Coding Tasks
344. ICML 2025BaxBench: Can LLMs Generate Correct and Secure Backends?
345. ICML 2025Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on LLM-Based Code Completion
346. ICML 2025BoA: Attention-aware Post-training Quantization without Backpropagation
347. ICML 2025Ca2-VDM: Efficient Autoregressive Video Diffusion Model with Causal Generation and Cache Sharing
348. ICML 2025Can Large Language Models Understand Intermediate Representations in Compilers?
349. ICML 2025CodeIO: Condensing Reasoning Patterns via Code Input-Output Prediction
350. ICML 2025CodeSteer: Symbolic-Augmented Language Models via Code/Text Guidance

FAQ

How many Code Generation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

2,161 in total: 210 in 2023, 446 in 2024, 645 in 2025, 860 in 2026.

How many Code Generation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 236 Code Generation papers, versus 230 the year before.

How many Code Generation papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 241 Code Generation papers, versus 164 the year before.

How many Code Generation papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 174 Code Generation papers, versus 79 the year before.

How many Code Generation papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 209 Code Generation papers, versus 172 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Code Generation papers?

NeurIPS, with 630 papers from 2023 to 2026.